Fan-holder



(No ModeL) B. BROWER.

PAN HOLDER. N0. 315 899. 39 Patented Apr. 14, 1885.

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EFEGIEICATIQH foiznirig part of Letters Patent No. 315,899, dated April 14, 1885.

Application riled December 1, recs. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: of the rests for the spread or folding fans, as

Be it known that I, BLOOMFIELD Browse, A, with a plurality of sockets for the straighta citizen of the United States, residing in the handled fan, as B, I will proceed to describe city of New York, county of New York, and the embodiment of the invention as herein State of New York, haveinvented certain new illustrated. 55

and useful Improvements in Fan-Holders,fully In its general configuration the holder has described and represented in the following an arched form transversely, as appears from specification and the accompanying drawings, Fig. 4. This is for the purpose of providing forming a part of the same. 1 a space, 0, for the inward-projecting parts of In said drawings, Figure 1 is a front eleva the fans, and to give an angular direction to 6c tion showing the holder in use, its parts obtheir bodies, that the ornamental groupings soured by the fans being delineated in dotted I may be enhanced. lines. Fig. 2 shows a side elevation of the The rests for the spread or folding fans holder when constructed of wire',bent, coiled, IA consist of back bars, 2 2, and a central or twisted into proper shape. Fig. 3 repretongue, 4, between the contiguous side edges 65 sents by aside elevation aholder constructed of which the side sticks, 8, of the fan are. by casting, and Fig. 4 is a transverse section embraced, a recess, 3, being also provided on line :0 of Fig. 2. 1 for the introduction of the projectingbutts of Since the general introductioninto the noun the spread body and side sticks, 7 8, so that try of the fans of the East, which present not the same may pass behind the tongue 4., and 70 only a large variety of shapes, but exceeding the sticks S be seated in the bends 6. The 1y ornamental and highly artistic surface-orsockets for the sticks 10 of the fans or para.- namentation, it has become almost a universal sols and the like consist of holes, as 11, procustom to usesnch fans asa means of ornamentvided in the sides of the body portion of the ing rooms by attaching them to the walls, genholder. 7

erally in artistic groupings. In securing them The structure illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and in place it has been common to use nails or at shows the holder as constructed from wire, pins driven through some part of the fans and convoluted-shaped and secured so as to form into the wall. This mode of fastening not the tongues 4 and side bars, 2, of the rests for 0 only injures the fans and disfigures the walls, the folding fans, and to form the sockets 11 80 but affords at best but a weak means of holdfor the sticks of the fans, parasols, and the ing the fans in place, as light gusts of wind or like. In the structure Fig. 3 these rests and slight handling suffice to either disturb the supports are provided bya cast-metal structarrangement or cause one or more to become ure, as is indicated by the like use of these detached. letters of reference. 85

The object of my improvement is the pro- The holder might obviously be made from vision of a holder that may be attached to the strong wood, stiff paper, sheet metal, or any wall or to a piece of furniture, and provide a other material suitably shaped. The holder rigid holder for supporting groupings of fans is provided with cars 20, by which it may be or other objects having handles, in which they attached to the wall of a room or surface of a 0 may be secured by mere insertion into sockets piece of furniture, or to a back board, B, seor rests. cured by cars, or a hanger, as 25. In either The invention consists in a holder having case the surface of the wall, furniture, or back one or more rests adapted to receive the ordiboard affords abearing aiding to support the nary folding fan and support the same when fan-sticks. spread open, and with sockets adapted to The provision of the rests and sockets thus receive and support fans having projecting far described constitutes a complete holder, handles or sticks, and aback board in connec but the openings 12 are capable of use like the tion with such device. sockets 11, for the support of handled objects, Assuming that there may be one or more and may or may not be employed as hangers r00 or supports, according as the extent of the number of objects to be grouped is greater or less than is provided for by the said rests and the sockets 11.

In using the holder n, folding fan or fans a A are first spread open, and then the butt formed by the expanded body and side sticks, 7 8, is first inserted through the recess 3, and lowered behind the tongue until the side sticks, 8, rest in the bends 6. Thus seated, the fan will not only be held spread open, but will be slightly curved inwardly, by reason of the pressure of the upper end of the tongue 4,

Which is bent inwardly to bear its curved end against the body-sticks 7, the flexibility of the frame of the fan enabling this to be effected, andits elasticity acting to hold the fan securely in the embrace of the parts constituting the rest. This forward curving of the fans A, whether one or more be employed, as the two shown, or a third from a rest arranged midway of the body of the holder, forms the base or central portion of a grouping of articles that will form a graceful ornamental device for the ornamentation or decoration of a room or article of furniture.

Stiff fans, as B, or paper parasols, photographs having handles, and like articles may be associated with said folding fans to complete the group, by inserting their handles into the sockets 11, and either allowing the buttend of said handles to bear against the wall or back board, or be supported in one of the sockets 11 or openings 12, so as to hold the fan or article at the desired angle to produce the effect desired.

The openings 12 may be used as hangers or supports. As hangers they are suitable to hold articles whose handles have curved ends, or in like manner as are the supports 11.

By this structure it will be observed that the sockets 11 are arranged in opposite pairs, as are the openings 12, and that these sockets and openings are'so disposed by the arched form of the holder as to permit the articles to be arranged in different planes, and thus lap past each other and so spread in an ornamental group.

What is claimed is 1. A holder consisting of the rest formed by .bars, as 2, and a curved tongue, which rest is supported a suitable distance from the Wall or back board to provide a space between the rest and back board for the spreading butt of a fan, substantially as described.

2. A holder for fans and light articles, provided with one or more rests, 2 4, and one or more sets of opposed sockets, 11, all raised from the wall or back board, substantially as described.

3. A holder for fans and light articles, provided with one or more rests, 2 4, openings 12, and one or more sets of opposed sockets, 11, all raised from the wall or back board, sub stantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BLOOMFIELD BBOWER.

Witnesses:

GEo. B. THORNE, T. H. PALMER. 

